Calling Time: Religion and Change at the Turn of the Millennium

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This collection of essays examines responses to the Millennium and whether or not the year 2000 could be claimed as a specifically Christian time. It also considers how other religions reacted to the moment and what millennial celebrations reveal about religion in a secular age. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Foreword Preface List of Contributors Part One: Religion and Time Jubilee: A Biblical Perspective Time and Creation The Jubilee as a Social Welfare Institution The Jubilee at the End of Time The Biblical Heritage of the Modern Milllennium FURTHER READING The Angelic Restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2.6-7 The Problem Proposed Solutions Exegetical Assumptions The Angelic Restrainer Muslims and Time: Islam, Globalization and Social Change at the Turn of the Millennium Islam and Globalization Muslims in Britain and the New Millennium Conclusion Is There an East Asian Millennium? East Asian Conceptions of Time Introduction The East Asian Lunar Calendar The Solar Calendar and Duodenary Enumeration Buddhist Cosmology and Temporal Reckoning A Buddhist Calendar An Example of an East Asian Hermeneutic of Cycles A Threshold of Fear and of Hope: Religion, Society and the Dawn of the Millennium Approaching a New Millennium Icons of the Apocalyptic Age Past and Future: Ceremony and Theology The Kingdom of God Today: Building Jerusalem? Pre-Millennial Tensions: What Pentecostal Ministers Look forward to Introduction Biblical Data Pentecostal and Historical Contexts Historical Perspectives on Millennial Beliefs Sociological Reflections on Millennial Beliefs Empirical Exploration of Theological and Sociological Theory 2. Method 3. Results 4. Discussion 5. Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY Are you Suffering from PMT? The Impact of Millennial Time Part Two: Religion and Change Owls and Roosters: Y2K and Millennium's End Y2K: The State of the Culture The Sabbatical Millennium: Earliest Apocalyptic Time-Bombs Set for Millennium's End 'Behold, I make all things new': History, Politics and the Challenge of the Millennium Christianity and the Future of Europe The Context and the Challenge 'The Religious Map' of Europe The Conservative Bias Secularization Modern Changes The Church, Culture and Change Contemporary Belief Public Religion The Orthodox Churches Conclusion: Toward the Future Transforming Establishment: The Opportunity of a Millennium? The Future of Theology Spirituality and Youth Introduction The Concept of'Spirituality' Baby Boomers Baby Busters Millennial Generation BIBLIOGRAPHY The Sacred Canopy: Time and Religion at the Greenwich Millennium Dome The Faith Zone Tensions on Time A Theology of Time Conclusion Afterword Index of Names